April 14, 2026 @ 1:05 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Finastra has announced a strategic partnership with Marketnode to digitize and automate the onboarding of credit agreements for corporate lenders. The collaboration brings together Marketnode’s LLM- and AI‑powered intelligent document automation and Finastra’s Loan IQ platform via the Loan IQ Nexus Build module. It enables financial institutions… Read More

 Tagged automation, Digitization, finastra, marketnode, onboarding

April 13, 2026 @ 10:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK based cross-border payments Fintech Wise (LON:WISE) is set to complete its long-anticipated move of its primary stock market listing from London to the United States in May, marking a significant milestone for the fintech company. The shift, which will see the firm establish its… Read More

 Tagged payments, uk, us, wise

April 13, 2026 @ 7:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Finance noted that the ongoing battle against financial crime has become more challenging because artificial intelligence has emerged as a powerful weapon (but for both sides). A recent analysis from UK Finance underscores a critical shift where fraudsters are now harnessing AI to outpace… Read More

 Tagged ai, fraud, scams, uk finance, united kingdom

April 13, 2026 @ 3:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Federal Reserve has introduced a public consultation on a regulatory update that would open its FedNow real-time payments platform to international transfers for the first time. FedNow, which began operations in 2023, functions as a high-speed interbank settlement network designed for instant domestic… Read More

 Tagged federal reserve, fednow, instant payments, us

April 13, 2026 @ 2:54 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Researchers from Google DeepMind, Microsoft Research, Columbia University, t54 Labs, and Virtuals Protocol propose the Agentic Risk Standard (ARS), a framework that applies financial risk management principles to AI agent transactions. Their paper, Quantifying Trust: Financial Risk Management for Trustworthy AI Agents introduces a settlement-layer… Read More

 Tagged Agentic Risk Standard, AI agent, Chandler Fang, Chi Wang, t54, Tianyi Peng

April 13, 2026 @ 10:00 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bitget Wallet is exploring the integration of self-custodial crypto payments into Japan’s stablecoin payment ecosystem through discussions with Netstars, a payment infrastructure provider. The initiative centers on how Web3 wallets can connect to existing merchant networks, marking a potential step toward bringing stablecoin payments into… Read More

 Tagged Alvin Kan, Bitget Wallet, japan, Netstars, self-custodial crypto

April 13, 2026 @ 8:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Shares of Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) are cratering in pre-market trading following an earnings beat that apparently did not top whisper expectations that it would crush its earnings. Goldman, the world’s top investment bank, saw its shares decline by over 4% before the market opened and… Read More

 Tagged goldman sachs, gs

April 13, 2026 @ 8:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK fintech GoCardless has achieved a key milestone by posting its first-ever profitable quarter. This update from the financial technology provider represents a significant shift for the company, which is said to have prioritized expansion and innovation in the payments landscape. The positive results stem… Read More

 Tagged gocardless, uk, united kingdom

April 13, 2026 @ 7:58 am By Michael Wong  |  

Pipe, a Fintech firm offering embedded financing tools for small businesses, has raised $16 million in a funding round led by investors including Fin Capital and MaC Venture Capital, the company said. The deal marks Pipe’s first equity fundraising since it relaunched its embedded financing… Read More

 Tagged fin capital, funding round, pipe

April 12, 2026 @ 9:18 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The early effects of the ceasefire and an interesting take on tokenization highlight our Web3 Thoughts of the Week. CLARITY Act – tokenization legislation “While the US Congress debates how to fit tokenization into existing securities law, and European leaders build legal frameworks around third-party… Read More

 Tagged Aurelie Barthere, ceasefire, clarity act, Coin Bureau, dropprwa, Faisal Al Monai, legislation, nansen, Nic Puckrin, tokenization